The modern zombie has roots in Haitian Vodou beliefs about the dead being revived or controlled through supernatural means. Early interest was strengthened by William Seabrook’s 1929 book The Magic Island, which describes Haitian zombis as people deprived of freedom and forced into labor, very different from the flesh-eating monsters later popularized in horror films.
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